Netscape Mail and Newsgroups, commonly known as just Netscape Mail, was an email and

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client produced by Netscape Communications Corporation as part of the

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series of suites between versions 2.0 to 7.2. In the 2.x and 3.x series, it was bundled with the web browser. In the 4.x series, it was rewritten as two separate programs known as Netscape Messenger and Netscape Collabra.

Features

Netscape Mail & Newsgroups features support for relevant protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, a built-in Bayesian spam filter, support for multiple accounts, etc. Released in 1995, it was the first mail reader (or Usenet reader) to support native display of HTML messages. Initially its development was overseen in-house, but following

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's purchase of Netscape in 1998, its codebase development was handed over to the Mozilla Foundation, originally initiated by Netscape, and therefore became based upon the Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups component of the

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Mozilla Application Suite. Mozilla ceased development of the suite between 2004 and 2006 in favour of stand-alone applications, and as a consequence Netscape's series of suites were also discontinued. In 2005, Netscape released Netscape Browser 8, based upon

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, which did not include an email client, therefore the latest version inclusive of a mail client, version 7.2, became unsupported. The development of Mozilla Mail and Newsgroups has now been continued as SeaMonkey Mail and Newsgroups.

Re-generation

In 2007, after the release of stand-alone browser Netscape Navigator 9, Netscape confirmed that it would once again develop an e-mail client, now named Netscape Messenger 9. The new release was to be based upon Mozilla Mail's successor, Mozilla Thunderbird. Additionally, after an official poll posted on Netscape's community support board in late 2006, speculation arose of the Netscape 7 series of suites (including the Mail client) being fully supported and updated by Netscape's in-house development team once more, including major bug fixes and security issues. However, development of Netscape Messenger (and any speculation of an update of Netscape 7) was ended when AOL announced they would end development and support of Netscape Navigator and Netscape Messenger. Support ended on March 1, 2008.

References

External links

Netscape Browser ArchiveNetscape Navigator homepageNetscape Messenger 9.0a1
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Features

Re-generation

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